We have set up a system that will publish 2 new postcards to twitter every day from petanque.org. It will not work forever of course, in only 2,5 years we will start with re-runs of cards we have already previously published on Twitter . We do have a lot of petanque-postcards here.Full story

Last night the regular boules (or petanque) players at the Rivonia Sports Club encountered over 1000 African National Congress Youth League (the ANC is the ruling party in South Africa)members who had congregated to register for their national general council at the sports club. The participants provided a noisy and crammed backdrop to our normal sedate afternoon's play.Full story

Here are some pics from the 2nd Johannesburg Open played at the Boulesdust piste at the Zoo Lake Sports Club in Johannesburg (see Google Pic). There were 10 doublets who played in 2 round robin leagues. The top 2 teams then played in the semi-finals. The final was won by Paul and Howie who beat Gerald and Bridget in a tense final that finished well after 8pm.Full story

Lars Refn was one of the founders of the Copenhagen Petanque Club in Denmark. He is also an illustrator, and has produces a vast number of t-shirts with petanque as the theme over the years. Full story

Apparently there is a very good reason why the French are best at petanque. And it is not the fact that they invented the game. It is all in where you practice. A nice park with a tower is what you need!Full story

Despite initial predictions to the contrary, Sunday October 1st was
sunny and relatively warm, which a good thing when you are organizing
the first Petanque competition for Juniors in Oregon organized by La
Boule Rose.Full story

The Romanian Petanque Association ("Asociatia Petanque Romania") is the first of its kind in Romania. More associations and organizations are initiated just now due to our efforts to develop the Petanque sport in Romania. Thanks to our friends, amateurs and professionals de Petanque from Romania, we are opening more clubs and we are in this moment the founders of the Romanian Petanque Federation. Full story

We have a lot of information on the history of petanque, but just when we thought we had it all we got a series of pictures of the ancient Minoan sport played just outside the palace ruins of Kato Zakros in Crete. Full story

Some shots from our temporary courts that the city put in as a pilot program. The response has been great and the city will be adding permanent courts, lined with original cobblestones from this historic part of Seattle.Full story

The tournament took place in Peterhof in front of the entrance to the main Palace on 10 of July 2004, where 28 teams took part in this event. Last weekend St.Petersburg was undoubtedly the capital of the Russian petanque. And this year the swedes won the tournament!Full story

The Chiltern Region of the British Petanque Association is an up and coming region and is growing in strength all the time. One aim for the region is to encourage new and existing junior players, coach, support and help them reach their goals.Full story

One upon a time we had a few postcards online here at petanque.org. Now we have 582 of them! Our very own Jac Verheul, the editor of the Dutch magazine PetanQue, has updated the collection once againFull story

Peter and Monica ward , and the others members of the Whittlesey Boulodrome managed to run successfully the second Grand Prix of the indoor series.
A contributed story with pictures from Whittesey, United Kingdom.Full story

Pictures from the belgian petanque club 51 boules à l´ombre . 51 comes from pastis 51, the favourite drink of all our members, lombre is french for shadow and boules means balls , this you probably did understand. Anyway it is not often we see such a magnificent playing area.Full story

It is not always we have this kind of thing here. in fact it is almost guaranteed that is is the last. But - as we try to give all users their time in the spotlight, we present the UK Nude petanque team. But never again.Full story

Andreas Øwre has sendt us a series of images from the Nowegian Season-kickoff. On this first match of the year the temperature was just above freezing, and all participants ended up colder than a steel boule..Full story

The Financial times has finally understood that Petanque is the game of the future, with our long time friend Mike Pegg, International umpire.
"It may not be the sunny south of France but even on a chilly Devon day, British fans are warming to the charms of pétanque"

We stumbled across a petanque-game for the andoid-system. From the produces description:"Petanque in St Tropez is a 3D bowls game, as played on the mediterannean coast." We do not have an android-phone to test it on, perhaps one of you can help us out?